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Very History Early Origins Early History Spelling Variations Early Notables Ranking

Ireland United States Canada New Zealand

Contemporary Notables Related Stories Citations

Very History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
England
Scotland
Ireland

Early Origins of the Very family

The surname Very was first found in Lanarkshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig) a former county in the central Strathclyde region of Scotland, now divided into the Council Areas of North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, and the City of Glasgow, where they held a family seat at Rutherglen from early times, some say before the Norman Conquest in 1066. An ancient couplet says "nae man can tell, nae man has seen, when the Faries Haena in Ruglen been." A rough translation of this couplet: "no man can remember when there hasn't been a family of Faries at Rutherglen." 1

Early History of the Very family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Very research. Another 90 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1296, 1766, 1791, 1792, 1826, 1851 and 1890 are included under the topic Early Very History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Very Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Fairie, Fairrie, Farie, Fairey, Ferry, Ferrie, Fairy, Faireye and many more.

Early Notables of the Very family

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Very Ranking

In France, the name Very is the 5,996^th most popular surname with an estimated 1,000 - 1,500 people with that name. 2

Migration of the Very family to Ireland

Some of the Very family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Another 77 words (6 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Very migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Very Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Thomas Very who was among the very first settlers arriving in the colonies, when he went to New England in 1647
Thomas Very, who landed in New England in 1647 3
Margaret Very who went to Maryland in 1676

Very Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Issac Very, who arrived in Virginia in the year 1700

Very migration to Canada +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Very Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century

William Very was 30 when he went to Toronto in 1871

Very migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Very Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

Charles Very, who landed in Nelson, New Zealand in 1842 aboard the ship Clifford
John Very, who landed in Nelson, New Zealand in 1842 aboard the ship Clifford

Contemporary Notables of the name Very (post 1700) +

Jones Very (1813-1880), American mystic
Edward Wilson Very (1847-1910), American ordnance expert
Joseph Very Quarles (1843-1911), American politician of the Republican Party who served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin
Joseph Very Quarles (1843-1911), American Republican politician, Mayor of Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1876-77; Member of Wisconsin State Senate, 1880-82; U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, 1899-1905 4
Very Rev. Fr. Thomas D Folan (1810-1874), Irish Dominican priest, King of the Claddagh

Citations +

Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 13) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html